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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work provides a suitable introduction to this most influential of poets. It includes poems that are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Edition
Main
Number of pages
85
Condition
New
SKU
9780571135868
ISBN
9780571135868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.19

Hardback. In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Editor(s): Cohen, Matt; Glover, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803232396
ISBN
9780803232396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.57

Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005167
ISBN
9780674005167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.15

paperback. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Num Pages: 119 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 160. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
119
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714525907
ISBN
9780714525907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.11

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846315046
ISBN
9781846315046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.25

Paperback. John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. Series Editor(s): Greenway, Gerard. Series: Angelaki Humanities. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719095603
ISBN
9780719095603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.89

Hardcover. John McNamee captures through his poetry the heroism, irony, tragedy and beauty that is hidden even among the shambles of the desolate urban neighborhoods in which he ministers. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AFH; DC; DSBH; DSC; HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Sheed & Ward
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556128127
ISBN
9781556128127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.81

Paperback. In this new interpretation of the Education of Cyrus, in which Xenophon theorized about leadership, Sandridge considers Xenophon's portrait of Cyrus as sincerely laudatory though not idealized. He explores the wider context in which Xenophon's Theory of Leadership was conceived, as well as the problems of leadership he sought to address. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067028
ISBN
9780674067028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.07

Hardback. Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offering a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation, this book traces the poet's literary influence on later authors and his impact on the arts. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159494
ISBN
9781405159494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.42

Hardback. An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'. Editor(s): Newman, Lance E. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 b/w drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270787
ISBN
9780520270787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 35.26

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691627595
ISBN
9780691627595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.78

Part detective story, part fable, this novel takes the reader to a mythical post-industrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 183 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231080200
ISBN
9780231080200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.88

Paperback. Francois Mauriac is one of France's most read and consistently studied modern writers. Most of the essays in this collection are written from a psychobiographical or psychocritical viewpoint, drawing on the work of Freud, Marthe Robert, Klein, Lacan and Mauron. Editor(s): Flower, John; Flower, J.E. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894272
ISBN
9780859894272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.33

Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631858
ISBN
9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.04

Paperback. A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers-Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes-affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBTV; JFC; JMAF; JPWF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114158
ISBN
9780231114158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

hardcover. This volume completes the Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Joseph Conrad. Editor(s): Davies, Laurence; Knowles, Owen; Moore, Gene M.; Stape, J. H. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521881890
ISBN
9780521881890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.40
€ 185.59

Hardback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754187
ISBN
9780804754187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.54

Paperback. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856683039
ISBN
9780856683039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.34

Paperback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804736565
ISBN
9780804736565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.18

Paperback. This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them. Num Pages: 212 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075860
ISBN
9780226075860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.51

Paperback. This classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Editor(s): Dunn, Charles W.; Byrnes, Edward T. Num Pages: 584 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DNF; DQ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Routledge
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824052973
ISBN
9780824052973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785105
ISBN
9780804785105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.63

Hardback. Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674806252
ISBN
9780674806252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.98
€ 78.19

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781560729198
ISBN
9781560729198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.85
€ 48.04

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